Hello everyone, it is crazy to think that on the 8th I will have been gone from home for a whole month! I miss everyone like crazy but I am having a great time here.  It has been a pretty full week and it flew by.  In the mornings we had our book discussion like usual on Victory Over Darkness, which we finished this week.  Instead of having class inside of the building at El Puente we had our meetings outside because a team of American missionaries were down here working on building a wall inside.  El Capitan the dog at El Puente went to a new home and we all miss the little guy (he was a pitbull puppy).  Then after class we went home and ate some sandwiches and then we went back to El Puente in the afternoons and some of us learnt how to make cement and helped build the wall and I chopped up the weeds in the field behind El Puente with a machete.  I actually got to know some of the guys who live at the base (El Puente).  I made friends with Guillermo and Manuel and they told me that I speak good spanish and I told them that they need to help me learn more! Only 3 men came to the base from the American missionary team but they showed us how to make the cement and build the wall so that we can hopefully keep working on the building when they are gone.  On Friday night my room and another of the girls´ flooded an inch and a half or so.  It turns out that the pipes that lead to the street that our shower and washing machine flow into was plugged.  Two of the guys from the base came with a 20 ft pole and pushed it through the pipes and out came a dead rat, two t-shirts, a rag, and a football!  So then the water level went down and we swept the water out of our rooms and they dried out.  Yesterday we went to Managua on the bus and it only costs 20 cordobas or 1 dollar to take a bus there.  Granada is about and hour from Managaua but it takes more like an hour and a half because we stop every 5 minutes (exageration) and pick people up and drop people off along the way.  We went to the mall in Managua, there was a lot of stores, a food court, and a movie theatre.  Everything was pretty expensive as far as Nicaraguan prices going and it was all in dollars.  Some of us went shopping and other people went and saw a movie.  It was a fun day off.  This morning we went to church at El Puente and I really enjoyed the worship.  We learned today that we will now be teaching ESL on Mondays and Tuesdays, four of us Jo Ann, Annie, Sarah, and I are going to teach at the school here.  We think we will be teaching ninth graders for about 40 mins every Monday and Tuesday until December.  I am really excited to be able to get to know some kids that are closer in age then most of the kids we have come into contact with!  We are going to work on a lesson plan tonight and I will write next week how it goes.  Please be praying for my team and I as we start this new week!